auspicatus Latin · revision 36045

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=la auspex}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [au̯s.pɪˈkaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [au̯s.piˈkaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''auspicātus''' (feminine auspicāta, neuter auspicātum, comparative auspicātior, adverb auspicātō); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[der|la|auspicor|t=to take the auspices]], its participle used as an adjective.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) De Vaan lists ⟨auspicārī⟩ with [[m|la|auspex|t=augur]] among the derivatives of [[m|la|avis|t=bird]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first example is Varro's ''die auspicato'', a day approved by the auspices,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) though Köbler dates it from Catullus.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It first meant approved by augury, hallowed: Cicero has a place consecrated by the auspices, Livy assemblies held after the auspices were taken, and Seneca a marriage bed.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) From this it came to mean auspicious, fortunate or lucky:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Catullus asks who ever saw a more auspicious love, ''Venerem auspicatiorem'',^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Horace has attacks that were not auspicious, and Pliny the Elder uses the comparative of a tree.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Quintilian says that among Roman writers Virgil would make the most auspicious beginning,^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) and Pliny the Younger calls something the happiest of omens.^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Ecclesiastical Latin kept the sense auspicious or happy.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses ''die auspicato'', of a hallowed day.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses the comparative of a happy love.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of attacks that were not auspicious.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses the superlative of a beginning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Approved by [[m|en|augury]], hallowed, consecrated.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # [[m|en|auspicious|alt=Auspicious]], fortunate, [[m|en|lucky]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[auspicātō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[auspicor]]

+ * [[auspicium]]

+ * [[auspex]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate fourth-declension noun ''auspicātus'', ''-ūs'', the taking of auspices, occurs in Pliny the Elder.^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''Auspicatus'' is also found as a Roman cognomen in inscriptions.^(TLL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}